Arsenal Football Club (often simply known as Arsenal or The Arsenal, or by their nickname The Gunners) are an English professional
football club based in
Holloway,
North London. They play in the
Premier League and are one of the
most successful clubs in
English football, having won thirteen
First Division and Premier League titles and ten
FA Cups, and hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight.
Arsenal were founded in 1886 and were the first
Southern club to join the
Football League, in 1893. They won their first major trophies in the 1930s, with five League Championship titles and two FA Cups. After a lean period in the post-war years they became the second club of the 20th century to win the
League and FA Cup Double in
1970–71, and during the past twenty years have recorded a series of successes – in this time Arsenal have won a
Cup Double, two further League and FA Cup Doubles, the Premier League title
unbeaten, and became the first
London club to reach the
UEFA Champions League Final.
The club's colours have traditionally been red and white, which have evolved through history. Similarly, the club have changed location over time; the team were initially founded in
Woolwich, south-east London, and in 1913 they moved north across the city to
Arsenal Stadium,
Highbury. In 2006 they made a less drastic move to their current home, the
Emirates Stadium in nearby
Holloway.
Arsenal have a large fanbase, who hold a string of long-standing rivalries with several other clubs; the most notable of these is with neighbours
Tottenham Hotspur, with whom they regularly contest the
North London derby. Arsenal are one of the richest clubs in English football (valued at over £600m as of 2008), and thanks to their stature, have regularly featured in portrayals of football in
British culture.
Arsenal Ladies are the most successful English club in
women's football and are also affiliated with the club.
Proof of how good they really are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0habEZozCAk&feature=related